ST. LOUIS (AP) — Prosecutors say they will seek the death penalty for a St. Louis man charged with killing three people in two separate shootings last year. Prosecutors have filed notice that they will seek to have 26-year-old Ollie Lynch Jr. put to death if he’s convicted. Lynch is charged with three counts of…
ST. CHARLES, Mo. (AP) — A battle continues over how to handle the last call for alcohol in the St. Louis-area town of St. Charles. The St. Charles City Council next week will again try to come up with a solution to a growing problem of unruly closing-time revelers in the town’s historic downtown area.…
BRANSON, Mo. (AP) — A former employee of a southwestern Missouri paddlewheel tourist boat alleges in a lawsuit that he suffered post-traumatic stress after trying to save victims of a fatal duck boat accident. The Springfield News-Leader reports that Gregory Harris filed suit Monday against Ride the Ducks International, Ripley Entertainment and the boat’s captain.…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — An ethics panel says there’s reason to believe that former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens broke the law over how his campaign reported a donor list it obtained from a charity he founded. But the Missouri Ethics Commission director in a Friday letter wrote that the local prosecutor won’t press charges.…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) — A man is dead after a police standoff at a north St. Louis motel. Police say the man barricaded himself inside the First Western Inn on East Grand and North Broadway at just before 9 a.m. Friday as officers tried to arrest him. Officers heard a shot ring out and…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Police have a north St. Louis motel surrounded where a man is barricaded in his room. Around 8:45 a.m. Friday, a call went out for an officer in need of aid at the First Western Inn at East Grand and North Broadway. Shots were reportedly fired. There’s no indication of any officers being injured.…
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — A Missouri woman who is charged with killing her 5-year-old daughter and critically injuring her 1-year-old son by intentionally driving into the Kansas River told authorities she wanted to die and didn’t want anyone else to have her children, according to court records. The probable cause affidavit was released Wednesday in…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Two people are being treated for injuries after entering a neighbor’s burning home to rescue a child in south St. Louis. The St. Louis Fire Department says a blaze broke out Thursday afternoon at a home in the 1400 block of Graham. The department says two neighbors rescued a child and…
BALLWIN, MO (AP) — A St. Louis man is objecting to a finding that he is mentally unfit to stand trial in a shooting that paralyzed a suburban St. Louis police officer from the neck down. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that 33-year-old Antonio Taylor made the objection in a motion filed Tuesday through his public…
LAWRENCE, KS (AP) — A Missouri woman who is charged with killing her 5-year-old daughter and critically injuring her 1-year-old son by intentionally driving into the Kansas River told authorities she wanted to die and didn’t want anyone else to have her children, according to court records. The probable cause affidavit was released Wednesday in…